Eyewitness accounts of the liberation of concentration camps in 1945. Survivors and liberators recall how they were equally unprepared for liberation and describe the complexities, ambiguities, and ironies of the end of the Holocaust. After liberation, victims of the Third Reich moved from being prisoners to repatriated citizens, or, in many cases, stateless or displaced persons.

Abstract:

Eyewitness accounts of the liberation of concentration camps in 1945. Survivors and liberators recall how they were equally unprepared for liberation and describe the complexities, ambiguities, and ironies of the end of the Holocaust. After liberation, victims of the Third Reich moved from being prisoners to repatriated citizens, or, in many cases, stateless or displaced persons.